GAMES WORKSHOP STORIES - GW MANAGER LOSES JOB, REGAINS SANITY.

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@DreadWaaaghGaming Жыл бұрын

I remember GW stores being fun back in the 90s and 00s but its obvious how crap it is nowadays by the fact there's always just a single dude and no customers stood in every GW I've passed in the last few years. They're not allowed to create an atmosphere so they have none. Result is a dead store. Its really sad to see.

@Burnthas Жыл бұрын

My local store is the same.

@darko-man8549 Жыл бұрын

I feel bad when I go into my local GW just to pick up model-of-month or the anniversary model; but then I remember that GW entirely cultivated this atmosphere and I have an FLGS where I feel welcomed with atmosphere

@DreadWaaaghGaming Жыл бұрын

@@darko-man8549 yes its self-induced, more power to the small indies!

@Mark-nh2hs Жыл бұрын

I agree I got into the hobby in the early 90s as a young teenager and the atmosphere was great, - great times.

@Mark-nh2hs Жыл бұрын

@@Burnthas I think that may depend on region or the chance that the Manager and his upper management supervisor are laid back and cool so turn a blind eye to things. Will be interesting if that will change over time. But I'm glad to see that some stores have the old vibe, enjoy it whilst it lasts, as most I've visited in different locations in the UK have been sterile and nobody playing the games even though they are set up, hard sells etc etc.

@Burnthas Жыл бұрын

Gutting story. I remember playing games in my GW store as a kid. It was Awesome. They had an entife floor with olenty of gametables and painting tables. I occasionally drop in and it is not at all the same. The Warhammer store feels like walking in to a perfume shop or something. It seem to has lost its soul.

@vladimirpalik6697 Жыл бұрын

it did not loose it. It sold it's soul m8 ;)

@leichtmeister Жыл бұрын

busines studies be like: MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY

@legacy2ful Жыл бұрын

This actually makes me not want to buy anything from gw again

@Soreloser03 Жыл бұрын

Preach. 3D printing & OPR is my jam now simply because of GW's business practices. This is 1 story, but I don't doubt there are butts like the trainer in this vid.

@TheMiniMadCat Жыл бұрын

You shouldn't buy anything from them. Treated me like crap

@leichtmeister Жыл бұрын

@@Soreloser03 Let me tell you: My manager went through the same shit while I worked as a temporary employee for: 4.5 bucks/h (that was before minimum wage was introduced in Germany).

@legalam 4 ай бұрын

I literally go out of my way to not support them, I know people who get resin recasts and 3D printers

@clydemarshall8095 Ай бұрын

First time?

@luapdd1 Жыл бұрын

I have to say, as someone who worked as a temp manager(was a part timer) because they could not find a new manager for the store for months, it was hell. I had no training to handle the store properly, and needed to call my superiors and former manager all the time to ask about stuff. Interacting with customers was fun, and I had some really nice conversations with some, but having to manage a entire store, alone, without training and tons of customers every day...Once they got a new manager, I quit on the spot. Was totally burned out, on both GW, and the miniatures hobby. Especially after seeing how GW did not really care about the hobby or customer retention for the store. It was just about the money. Would love to work in a hobby store again sometime, but, not GW. Never GW.

@R4diateur Жыл бұрын

I FEEL your story, man, because I lived it as well. What you tell was also my story, besides a couple slight differences (It was in a French GW store. I won't tell which, as it's not relevant anyway). I was a temp manager myself, sometimes sales assistant, and sometimes store manager when the actual store manager wasn't here. A very close friend of mine, I shall add, who lived one hour and a half away from the store. So the only difference between your story and mine is that GW asked me if I wanted to run the store and become the full time manager, when my friend/manager I was covering left GW himself. And I refused to take the job. I refused a GW store manager position. I refused because of the sheer, raw and pure toxicness of the other side of the wall -Grandfather Nurgle would be proud, mind you. Or Tzeentch? Well to be honest, I'm not a leadership job guy myself to begin with, as I prefer to be an excellent Lieutenant, than a good Captain, but I would have certainly succeed as a manager nonetheless. Anyway, GW management, and the inside company state of mind is so toxic, I just didn't wanted to work with them anymore. The former manager/friend of which I was the cover guy left GW because of mistreatment, frequent lies, false promises and blackmail from it's bosses. It almost costed him his fiancee and their child. This is the kind of life damage corporate lies can lead to when you are someone as ambitious as my friend. We both left GW before such malevolence, he's married, and we are much more happier now. And better hobbyists.

@B1-997 Жыл бұрын

“Sorry, no games outside of intro games allowed at the game store.” Ridiculous.

@monjo6460 Жыл бұрын

Loving your stuff, listened to a lot of your hobby nightmares recently and I am still baffled as to how GW treats their employees. The stores seem to be successful in spite of GWs intervention. Congrats to the guy standing up for himself and getting out of that toxic environment.

@ironbomb6753 Жыл бұрын

Bro, that's the curse of Warhammer. It's so cool you love it, yet so effed up you hate it. I've been on the love/hate roller coaster since 87. Currently I'm very happy thanks to the new Horus Heresy releases.

@haffdanthorfinnson2413 Жыл бұрын

They weren't always solid. This new model of store kinda gets rid of some bad habits from the past

@Mockthenerd Жыл бұрын

@@ironbomb6753 it's like anything really. You have to separate the art from the artist. 40k and fantasy are very much games you can play while never having to ever walk into warhammer store or interact with an employee. It's why I fucking hate the company but buy models on ebay, print models and play with just friends. When GW is dead, 40k will still be played.

@davidstone-haigh4880 Жыл бұрын

@@ironbomb6753 same here mate

@remarkzero Жыл бұрын

The impression this story gives me is the managers above the store managers ... are superfluous, which makes me wonder how cognizant are they of being... excess inventory. Also nice track at the end White Bat is awesome

@TarnaxTheBarbarian Жыл бұрын

"Ganes Workshop doesnt advertise, we dont need to". Well then someone from GW is going to have to explain these Horus Heresy ads I get on KZfaq, then.

@martyndragar7910 Жыл бұрын

Ye and my phone when I'm playing other games

@wulfbak Жыл бұрын

I had that same kind of experience a few years ago. Didn't have any outward issues with my coworkers, didn't have any tasks not get done or slip. I got taken out to lunch one day by one of the managers. It was a casual, fun lunch. I didn't really know why I was going to lunch with him since we'd been to lunch not long before. At the very end, he started to berate me on my performance. All this relates back to a coworker who didn't see eye to eye with me. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but that just made me feel ambushed. I personally didn't feel it was a good way to handle the situation.

@arx1381 Жыл бұрын

I know that feeling of being almost lured into a false friendly situation to be ambushed. I work sheet metal so not the same as a store. But being unwell and trying to continue the day and not finishing work on time I got hauled to the office for a warning. Really sucks to be in that sort of environment with people after a situation like you had so I sympathise 👍🏼

@markpatterson766 Жыл бұрын

Real adults start with the shit and finish with the jokes.

@kaiser3043 Жыл бұрын

Its odd as i was in the same position as i went for the a job at my local GW shortly after uni as well, but looking back I'm glad i didn't get the job there as all I'm hearing is simply bad story after bad story about working there. But got a good job working elsewhere and now although stressful in some ways as its still retail its a lot better than working with someone like the head bods like that hovering around.

@Andernol Жыл бұрын

I would definitely like to hear your story about leaving GW, with the extra time you've had to process it and develop your perspective, but don't sacrifice your personal or mental health for content. If it's not something you want to revisit, leave it in the past.

@maxrice6990 5 ай бұрын

Just want to shout out all the amazing store managers and employees that were around when I was a kid. I was probably annoying, rarely buying anything because I was a kid relying on a summer job and a few dollars a week in allowance to buy new minis and I came in to the store all the time to play games and paint. But Luke, Anthony, and Jon, you guys made me feel like a friend and made my childhood and high school years special.

@darko-man8549 Жыл бұрын

Each of those top brass managers probably imagines themselves as their favourite chapter, but we all know they are each servitors - unable to think beyond the simple repetitive task they’ve been given

@dww6 Жыл бұрын

Hypothetical: There is a conflict above store level about proplayer engagement vs leg humping for every penny. Leg humpers are winning or have won but they know it's not in the companies best interest. They can't allow anyone to drive a return to the old ways because it'd highlight how shit they are.

@Megamix472 Жыл бұрын

I do hope that oxygen thief of a trainer listens to this and shows some humility, but probably not. Good on for you for moving on and feeling a lot better with less stress. 👍

@Mark-nh2hs Жыл бұрын

Don't be daft lol they probably take offence and bitch about it and incorporate the scenario into a presentation on how not to run a GW store - just to be petty lol.

@martyndragar7910 Жыл бұрын

You got no chance their to stuck up their own arses

@Mockthenerd Жыл бұрын

@@Mark-nh2hs you heard if from this video. They actually use this story as an example of bad managers so clearly they think they're in the right. GW had always and still does run a fascist company, during the 2010s it genuinely was beyond just money making as they made baffling bad decisions. They were so close to dying because of this but 8th edition rebranding and cheaper box sets brought them back from the dead. They hid their true colours for a whole 2 years before they couldn't help themselves and it all spilled out again.

@Furzkampfbomber Жыл бұрын

Not a GW employee, but I know this kind of behaviour even from my job as a nurse. There are people who not only suck every joy out of a job, but also suffocate every initiative and crack down onto you, the moment you do something differently - usually with the explanation 'Well, we are doing it like this for 200 years by now, so...'.

@malefic5254 Жыл бұрын

I want to open a game store, but how can I really accept GW products into my store with a clear conscience, knowing just how bad it is? Fuck, man. It's so fucking depressing

@kommissarepisch5331 Жыл бұрын

personally I figure people get more out of having a local option to buy at a discount than GW does out of supplying one more store

@khromas5392 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, yeah it sucks that GW runs their stores that way. It does create an opportunity for you to do it better and give people a place they enjoy going to chat about the hobby and play some games. I love talking to customers about what they are working on, new techniques for painting and just life in general.

@CharlieStalk Жыл бұрын

I was a GW manger and left due to the amount of bullying by team leaders. The final straw was being made to paint minatures for their personal collections. Any question I had against this was met with being called a cry baby or a queer!! This was in my early 20s and my first proper job with a chance of a career. They even forced me to move to another store hundreds of miles away to carry on my training. when I bailed the month before the area manager called me up to threaten me saying I better watch my back. bunch of complete twats.

@magaz Жыл бұрын

This sounds like most retail places. Regional managers and “higher ups” usually on power trips want to do everything by the book and reprimand anyone with any outside the box ideas, even if it’s at the detriment to the company.

@johncalabro8710 Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of places to play tennis. A good tennis club will engage with their customers and from that engagement people will become loyal and spend money. The places that don't and instead push lessons or selling products are often don't have long time customers but a door of customers

@evilstans Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't understand this sort of corporate buisness model - they make the store manager responsable for sales, but want to retain all decisions such as advertising as coporate. This isn't just GW, I see it all the time. You follow the corp direction and fail and are to blame and fired, or you deviate, do good and are blamed and fired.

@stonem0013 8 ай бұрын

it makes sense if you think about the goals of the senior corporate management. If a manager follows their policies and does well, that is best outcome for them. But the worst outcome would be for a manager to defy their policies and do well, because that really clearly signals a lack of competence on their part. A manager who follows their policies and does poorly isn't too bad for them, since they can always blame those poor results on factors outside of their control (like that particular manager being ineffective)

@colinmacmillan2944 Жыл бұрын

Summing up Geoff in three words - Balls. Of. Steel.

@casbalt7763 14 күн бұрын

12:13 ive never been to a games workshop store but the idea of a store selling game stuff. Especially very specific game stuff. And not letting people play the game in the store is super alien to me. The way it works with card games at least is you have them play there so that way they can see other peoples cards and then theyll want to buy cards to help increase their chances of winning or getting trade material.

@gehteuchnixan3052 Жыл бұрын

By now I am so glad I never been that much into the modelling side of the hobby that a career at GW seemed like an option to me. Sure, working there sounded nice years ago, but the more I learn about how it is to actually work there, I feel I dodged a bullet by never having had that as a serious option ^^;

@timothylyons5686 Жыл бұрын

I went into my local GW store looking for the book Successors, a novel about various successor chapters. The male in the store was completely uninterested in me, answering any questions l asked with ' l don't know'. As l walked out not having spent money l remarked that l had been going into that store for well over 25 years and had never been treated like that. His reply "so what you haven't spent any money so l don't care"

@DiavloPL Жыл бұрын

That company should rot to oblivion. Then someone should buy IP for pennies and do something good with it.

@liamsmith882 Жыл бұрын

For a company that loves money so much gw has a strange way of rewarding people for making more dosh

@georgesmith2631 Жыл бұрын

I went to a few interviews with GW a few years ago and every time I got a really bad vibe. The sorts of questions they ask and the way you're spoken left a bad taste. This channel pretty much validates how I felt and really don't feel like I missed out

@davidstone-haigh4880 Жыл бұрын

I had a phone 'interview' a few months back here in the UK for GW's pool of potential store staff. I told my wife afterwards, there was some kind of weird and uncomfortable vibe throughout the 20 min 'chat'. I just felt like I couldn't answer what he was asking of me as a person and all my questions were turned into 'why are YOU asking anything?' I was like he was just trying to feel me out as a 'fit 'for GW, as apposed to getting to know me and what I could offer (as in 32 years in the NHS working with people of all ages etc and latterly, six years in retail)., which I thought was the whole point. It just felt off and unpleasant. Needless to say, GW never called back.

@TonklinFallen Жыл бұрын

The almost universal bad experience I have had with GW store managers, I have long wondered what the company was doing to their managers to make them seem such ass holes.

@brother_bear_hobbies Жыл бұрын

Wow. Absolutely wow. I thought I had it bad when I left GW. The fact they insinuated he was doing stuff and wanted to look at his personal computer.

@Bobbymaccys Жыл бұрын

As a British southerner, I can confirm your impression was eerily accurate 😉

@ajones4574 Жыл бұрын

Visited many GW Stores over the years from the north, east, south and west of the UK. Always friendly staff ready for a chat and to offer advice... or at least it was like that in the 1990s. Perhaps when a company becomes an organisation some of the reasons for setting up disappear? Managers do look stressed but seem to be plying the training... same question again and again. But that's corporate life.

@dominicmetzger3246 Жыл бұрын

Keep making great content. You're one of the few that actually speaks truth about GW's corporate environment. I work with GW on many levels and I think they're the absolute worst gaming company to interact with.

@LiliaArmoury Жыл бұрын

gw needs to have their middle management to get fired by order of the share holders for mistreatment of staff. that or a gw trainers who behave like this deserve to be brained with a bag full of hard cover rulebooks (I am not advocating violence but I would be understanding if happened and would say to the trainer "well you shouldn't have pushed a now former employee to violence by being a d bag

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

Thing is that managers only care about their position and a few isolated cases of shop staff mis-treatment isn't going to motivate them to do anything about it. The only thing that will motivate them is when their job is on the line becase of problems with the troops on the ground on a mass scale.

@armoredmike8740 Жыл бұрын

To anybody that is going trough this no matter the job this is flagrant MOBBING. If your friend went with a phone hidden recorded the conversations, saved the selling papers and performances etc then went to a lawyer to add the material as evidence then you would go trough 1 year on court but at least several of these wankers would be found guilty for mobbing their workers. At least GW would have to fire them until that happens the wankers will continue to create hobby and work nightmares at GW. PS don't give them warning that you are recording these conversations you will have to check with your lawyer that the recordings are genuine not edited etc. Then hammer them on court other than just severance payment you will get rid the hobby of several wankers and scare the living shit out of the rest.

@waynebellamy4749 Жыл бұрын

This is bad really bad feel so sorry for the guy I generally don't go into GW stores due to the way they sell I tend to use other independent shops but he sounded like a top manager to me and is a credit to himself.

@Sgt-lott10 Жыл бұрын

Honestly though you gw employees are amazing folks, went down to a store on a trip to a birthday party I was invited to, happened to have one of these stores right where my family stopped to get tissue to fill the present bag, so we stopped by the store and in addition to getting the model of the month (leagues of votann figure) after I bought a cadian command squad (my furst warhammer kit, this was October 1st of this year) he let me get a middle earth miniatures figure too, so I went it to get a cadian command squad and ended up gettin two free figures, not to mention he was very helpful when I asked questions. it’s a long drive from where I’m at but I’ll definitely keep going in store every time I can just because of that encounter, shame to hear how the company is treating y’all

@dekai7992 Жыл бұрын

The way this went is so horrible on a personal level, first and foremost. I'm truly sorry for this guy's behaviour. On another level, I actually don't understand how GW can tolerate people like this who actually tank a well-running store with a growing and buzzing customer base and where everyone is happy. This is the very foundation you'd want, it's one that my FLGS has fostered for over 25 years, these are the pillars you can rest a community and sales on, and for decades, too. This kind of community even does the recruiting of new players for you, and you as a manager become and advocate for the company. Literally everbody wins. I simply cannot fathom why GW's sales division don't make fostering this exact behaviour a core principle.

@darko-man8549 Жыл бұрын

This is a story that leaves me with “I want GW to fail. I don’t care if your models are “the best” you deserve to squander”

@rhetoric5173 9 ай бұрын

They’re just scared to get sued. Can’t blame them really

@TheEldenBling Жыл бұрын

Mate, did GW legit send an inquisitor 🤣🤣

@leichtmeister Жыл бұрын

Wow...my manager and me went through the exact same shit back at our time oO

@kadebaca4903 5 ай бұрын

This is one of the many reasons why I only got into 40k when I got a 3d printer.

@TheOuterCircle Жыл бұрын

I notice a continuing trend in these stories of Ex-staff doing their dash at training days. Says an awful lot about the s@hitshow that is GW's management. If they didn't charge so much for their hobby, I'm certain they'd have imploded financially a decade ago from hemorrhaging fans.

@LiliaArmoury Жыл бұрын

i don't think i have ever been asked for an intro game, back around 2011 i do remember a gw staffer challenging me to a game before my army was ready for games at gw (because a lot of stuff was scratch build and the management back then had a 50% gw parts requirement this was before rules seemingly changes that allowed scratch built stuff

@W1DO Жыл бұрын

I would have asked the trainer to leave the store at the first visit (chucked him out), but I'd rather get the boot immediately than have that kind of interaction. Workplace bullying needs to be dealt with at GW. They appear to be risking breaching H&S law in the UK too.

@rc290 Жыл бұрын

Hi Northern, I went to a warH shop today and I thought I ask if games can be played in the shop. They explained you can book a campaign but not 1 off games book during the week. And I pushed to see why they did'nt arrange a games night and they said they were just a shop and you can arrange games if you come in and buy models. THis seems nonsense as I can arrange a game on the stop or even just chance it in a local gaming store and I can buy models for a cheaper price what is the point of Warh stores?

@remarkzero Жыл бұрын

I've been to i think 3 or 4 different stores and only one of them actually made me feel welcome, not pushed to, and helpful. Had a great vibe the one time I went there... unfortunately I was in a different state on vacation 🤦. The fellow working there was well put together, seemed to be alert and gave me the impression he was a competent guy. One of the other stores, the owner seemed like a real twat. I was trying to get into KT v1, had bought the mech vs GSC starter already. When I said I was interested in KT he "tasked/ordered" a regular guy to do a demo game with me and just checked right out. Another time I was talking to him about painting models and instead of hearing me out on what I was trying to achieve he was like screw that heres how to dry brush a mini. Granted he isn't wrong, its an easy quick and dirty way to get it done and I did take that information in, but he was so dismissive I was like meh fuck this place. I can accept some people are rough around the edges, but other times I was there he would be talking trash about other people/patrons. So yeah had messed up tribal feel and he was at the top of heap.

@Zulfrak Жыл бұрын

store makes massive amounts of cash cause you do events and people come to play trainer/area manager says "nope, dont do that" store starts to go red trainer/manager "lol not my fault do more demo games" yep, every time

@danielrajai3635 Жыл бұрын

Man stories like this really make you think GW retail despises everything about GW. I have clearly forgotten that the main draw of the hobby is the community that is built within the area.

@sirbonobo3907 Жыл бұрын

Once worked as a pizzaman in berlin, customers were mostly generous,, my bosses were utter assholes. Its like everywhere Corporate corrupts everything... thats why i never buy at gw shops.

@Mrspacedwarf Жыл бұрын

What is the game in the background?

@4sparta968 Жыл бұрын

Where can I submit a story? I've got a few as a noob trying to break into the hobby

@northernexile Жыл бұрын

Join the discord or send me an email :)

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

I think that the training at Games Workshop HQ isn't very open to ideas and they just want robots to suck up to them when visiting. I think 'GW trainers' of that era sound like Getaspo inquisitors. I would have shown him Slaanesh pawn on that laptop featuring 60 year old grannies.

@bopaintsminis Жыл бұрын

Games Workshop stores just seem like toxic environments for their employees.

@phanties Жыл бұрын

You must have been at the top of your class loo😂🎉

@bopaintsminis Жыл бұрын

@@phanties I don't think it's that obtuse of an observation. So Dean had a hard time. That's one guy. Any one guy can have a toxic experience. But the plural of "anecdote" is "anecdotes" not "evidence". It seems that we are getting more evidence that in addition to its predatory business practice, GW is also terrible to its employees. Again, objectively it is not as obvious as it appears.

@stevenschnepp576 Жыл бұрын

@@bopaintsminis I think you meant "plural", not "opposite".

@bopaintsminis Жыл бұрын

@@stevenschnepp576 Dang. Alzheimers comes early.

@christianblankenship7683 Жыл бұрын

I got to tell you buddy as I was driving home listening to you tell this story it just enraged me! That "trainer" had better thank his damn lucky stars that I was not a client of that store! Had I seen this happening he would have me to deal with! I don't give a shit if that little prick banned me from all GW shops. I'd be the type to dick to take me time to go to the head office and talk to the boss know what happened.

@onusbray8107 Жыл бұрын

I worked at gw in the ealry-mid 2000s, I got accused of having drugs on me wich I didn't, I was orders to strip to my boxers while the manager and his pet went though my cloths and figure cases. I was told if I refused, the police would be called and I'd be fired, guilty or not. Worked for a few months more, put a £200 weight staff order then walked

@onusbray8107 Жыл бұрын

I was told I could no longer DJ at the monthly metal nights because it would bring the company into disrupt. There are many more.

@derekjohnson747 Жыл бұрын

The game in the background utilizing the Xcom/Battletech game mechanics looks pretty cool, what is it?

@fozzykhf78 Жыл бұрын

It’s called Daemonhunter mate.

@Mark-nh2hs Жыл бұрын

When I hear these stories of Innovative Mangers getting crushed by GW headquarters makes me wonder if they send spies out to the stores who report back with a warped version of events, seeing that some stories feel like that. Lol

@OEFarredondo Жыл бұрын

Lol I worked GW in Northridge and Glendale back in 2004. Best job ever, great crew, manager was so nice, and we often played games after the store hours to learn and hobby. Never knew GW did any of this. Discount then was amazing. The pewter models where ugly af.

@oneeyedking3 Жыл бұрын

Another good one!

@jamesklingensmith4275 Жыл бұрын

Friday time here I Come

@heleti0000 Жыл бұрын

After listening to this, I am disgusted at GW management. This pathetic “Trainer” (?) obviously reflects the attitude of higher management and was obviously “on a mission”. Seriously, I was going to my local store later to buy the latest Underworlds set - I think, not anymore. This situation needs addressing immediately or GW will cease to exist very shortly (very sad for the decent people that put their heart and soul into GW and their products).

@ironbomb6753 Жыл бұрын

If GW could fix the hostile work environment they would probably get going gang busters again. Troublesome it is.

@jastat Жыл бұрын

The point about not soliciting people in public is spot on. But the way they handled it is very childish. Also, never bring your personal stuff to work

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

Listening to these gw employee stories, I'm honestly glad my local gw is Manchester and it is how it is. I really do feel sorry for these people. I've actually taken part in one of those role play scenarios with a member of staff. Gotta admit it is pretty cringe but I'm hoping it helped them. Props of being a very much so regular and kinda vet at the store lol. Generally I'm pretty good with the staff of gw Manchester. Plenty of time chinwagging but also keeping an eye out and letting them know when there are people at the till or customers that are taking interest in something if they haven't noticed. That trainer notice and immediately putting the phone down for me was an "Ah shit" moment. I think gw trainers are too rigid, they are like the ultramarines meme of following the codex to the letter, despite it fully intended to be a guide. Happy to report no ad but that laptop was another WTF moment.

@Kharmazov Жыл бұрын

You're talking about the GW in Manchester Arndale Gallery??

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

@@Kharmazov used to be inside the Arndale in the corner below the good court yeah. These days it's outside next to the pizza hut down from exchange square

@Kharmazov Жыл бұрын

@@hammer1349 I am curious. Have You been there around 2014, we might have crossed paths. I was the only Polish guy at that time;-)

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

@@Kharmazov I've been around there many years. Always went with my dad in Saturdays; about 5'10", glasses, always had a cap on. My dad that is not me, at that time I was 14/15 and a short ass lol.

@Kharmazov Жыл бұрын

@@hammer1349 What army did You play??

@gilbertzzz7110 Жыл бұрын

Who would thought that a video could make me want to visit a company, so only i could bitchslap the hell out people, there.

@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1248 Жыл бұрын

Stories like this is and the whole warhammer+ copyright strike debacle are why I now buy second hand from ebay and also 3d print. When the company decides to respect the fans and it's employees (both people who keep the company going with their hard earned money) then I'll reconsider my stance.

@johnschweiger1079 Жыл бұрын

GW Manchester Arndale as closed and I am gutted

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

New store is just down from exchange square next to the Pizza hut. It is certainly a different place compared to the old one but Da Boss Paul is still there and still creating all kinds of madness. Worth popping in just to see the store display in the window next to the counter

@johnschweiger1079 Жыл бұрын

@@hammer1349 I did not know the was a new store I thought it had just closed down thank you so much I am actually in the city centre over the weekend so I will pop in

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

@@johnschweiger1079 armies on parade in store tomorrow from 11am till 2pm. Practically perfect timing on your part lol. Hope you have a good one sir. I would pop down myself but I don't get paid till Monday lol

@johnschweiger1079 Жыл бұрын

@@hammer1349 oh is that tomorrow haha good timing I’ve been out of the hobby for a while so will be interesting to see the armies

@hammer1349 Жыл бұрын

@@johnschweiger1079 yep tomorrow. Feel free to vote on whatever you think is the best army you see

@Bitsandsquits Жыл бұрын

Epsom games workshop in 2012/2013 had the worst manager/ staff member there was only one guy working and he put me off by how rude he was to me baring in mind I was 12/13 on my own and it put me off so much the year is 2023 and I’ve only just bought my first box of warhammer just the recruit edition but it’s still my first ever box of warhammer, so many stories like mine

@kevlarburrito6693 Жыл бұрын

It kind of seems like a lot of the things that people just tolerate in the UK, aren't things that are tolerated in the US. Now maybe it's just me, but I've worked at places where the Head Nerd tried to do those things, and because I just said "no", they backed off. Now bare in mind, I am ex military and look the part, this isn't some weird flex on my part (I'm not claiming to have been a SEAL or some other operator lol), but people over here, to some degree, feel intimidated by that. I only bring this up because people have brought it up to me before.

@adamhellings9448 Жыл бұрын

Good video it I lopesing and people still I wot going to a gw because the so full of crap but good video thank you

@TheMiniMadCat Жыл бұрын

Holy moley, could I tell you stories about GWHQ. Fired me based on ill health - developed RSI on the job. Bunch of Cs

@thenapalmbrothershq5585 Жыл бұрын

I might be a little daft but exactly which game is that in the vid?

@MooGoshi Жыл бұрын

I think it's Chaosgate Daemon hunters, based on XCOM

@Benthesniperof8 Жыл бұрын

@@MooGoshi correctomundo. Warhammer: Chaosgate Daemon Hunters. Tis a fantastic little game where Kaldor Dragon kicks the ass of another daemon Primarch.

@Kharmazov Жыл бұрын

A quick question. Had any of such GW trainers been "accidentally" smacked in the past?? I am just curious, that all;-)

@davidstone-haigh4880 Жыл бұрын

If this is 'common practice' how on earth are GW still going as a business? Outrageous.

@embearasedbear3694 Жыл бұрын

Makes me wish someone would buy GW and just start firing people like what happened to Twitter.

@ravenRedwake Жыл бұрын

11:57 holy shit, not for the first time north, but I have the distinct impression that all the mid and upper corpos at GeeDub have jerk fantasies about being Adminstratum adepts

@thorshammer8033 Жыл бұрын

Should have closed the store , locked the door and gone to work on the corporate but boy

@nicky3538 Жыл бұрын

GW as a company has had a stick up their bums for the past 20+ years by my own expieriance. With games that in all honesty are notoriously subpar with big headed decision making by leadership that by appearances has no care for the end customer. If it wasn't for their creative and truly brilliant writers GW as a company would of gone defunct many moons ago. I'm not saying that I hate them or the product that they produce, but to say that I see what they are.

@JanitorScruffy Жыл бұрын

It boggles the mind how people in your stories behave rude and passive aggressive to the point of smugness, both games workshop middle management and the weird nerds in the hobby nightmares. Where I live isn't quite as old fashioned as it used to be, but this kind of behavior would be grounds for "do you want to take this outside boy?" The threat of having your ass kicked either by the guy you're being rude to, or your mother (I grew up in the kind of town where the cops call your mom on you because they know her personally) really puts a damper on this sort of behavior. The feeling of social invincibility is really apparent in these stories.

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

I have zero tolerance for this sort of behaviour these days, i rarely see it in life these days - I got a lot of it from managers in the early 2000s and late 90s where every day I had to fight the urge to punch them right in the face. In the end it's not worth it; remember 'don't get mad, get even.'.

@donmak1614 Жыл бұрын

I came here from the "Is GW really that bad?" video. I agree with some of the points (like the 8th edition, for example), but I feel that the real reason people (including me) leave the game is practices like this inside and outside the company. Threatening people with lawsuits, especially animators and proxy markers who don't copy their works 1 to 1, but are inspired by them, makes them look like huge hypocrites and bad people in general.

@Scragg- 7 ай бұрын

Response : so YOU admit youd like your head to go through this tempered glass display case?

@step2424 Жыл бұрын

I would like to see what GW have to say about this? Do they take criticism well.

@darko-man8549 Жыл бұрын

Of course GW don’t want advertising outside the store - advertising makes it look like GW is a regular commodity not a rich-man’s niche hobby.

@blackstar2356 Жыл бұрын

Did u move to Canada then

@hauntswargaming Жыл бұрын

Man it's so crazy that a game company could have such toxic and narrow minded leadership. The fact that his sales numbers were irrelevant to them is just disgusting.

@viorp5267 Жыл бұрын

I understand someone going to work retail after Uni if they did not manage to get a job in their field, but I'd never understand someone wanting go go work retail as a goal after finishing university. Seems pointless to me to have gone at all.

@craigsimpson3310 Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly dumbfounded that GW even still exists, when they themselves are leeches on the hobby. It breaks me knowing genuine people who have passion and love for what they do are being crushed under the morally empty, corrupt maggots of poor management. With management like that GW's days are numbered, and they'll be their own undoing.

@Mark-nh2hs Жыл бұрын

Moral of the story if your innovative and bring new people into the hobby as well making the company good turnover your a "threat' or a Rogue Operative lol. Even if you do it on the sly eventually you will get caught out. A sad shame, when I hear these stories where a good manager leaves and is replaced by a dog's body I hope the store fails and customers go else where. I remember when I first going into GW in the early 90s it was fun and the store team were amazing and gave great advice, never pushy etc etc. I left the hobby in the early 2000 due to college and then uni. It wasn't until 2012 I got interested back into the hobby - the new Dark Eldar did it for me lol - and I was more Fantasy and never played 40k - except for an introduction game with 2nd ed back in the early 90s. So I nipped to the local store and boy the atmosphere was sterile, constantly harassed with hard sells. Questions about the armies I was interested in were met with a screw up of the face and tried to push armies I had no interest in. Eventually I gave up and never went back. I still in the hobby but not GW, I discovered Mantic Games and we know GW make the best minis, but the enthusiasm of Mantic and their games just hit the spot - reminded me of GW of years ago. I still get the odd GW mini but not from GW. Sad really as some of my best memories of the hobby were back in the 90s. Love your content and stories.

@Farli-Gaming Жыл бұрын

advice to any working in GW store Join a UNION. if you all stand together they would not be able to get away with crap like that

@seppok8326 7 ай бұрын

This is one more of the reasons why I will not buy anything from GW if I can help it and so very often I can help it. As long as the higher ups do not crush this bullying I will not support the company. Nowadays I only buy things that are not easy to get otherwise, meaning practically only Necromunda cards. Models are not going to be bought by me from this company until their toxicity is gone. Until then my printer goes brrrrrrr.

@ZontarDow Жыл бұрын

Stories like this frankly remind me why I dislike GW, even the guys who do the job well are pushed out.

@keeblerpowell Жыл бұрын

Ohhh I’ve got a story for ya. Would love to chat.

@UnderCoverTrance Жыл бұрын

Who else watched this while building GW models?

@dk292 Жыл бұрын

GW customer experience gone down hill since management program stopped. Store staff now just being micro managed to death. Think corporate have lost the hobby part of all this. Why go into a Gw store if there is no difference between that and shopping online and getting 20% off.

@Truffles069 Жыл бұрын

GW trainers sound like the Commissars.. Or corporate bullies 🤣

@bonusactionheroes Жыл бұрын

Guessing didn’t pursue constructive dismissal because it sounds like a classic case. What a toxic approach, a bad egg?I tend to feel the culture starts at the top.

@stevenmcgrath5114 Жыл бұрын

A whole lot of delicate snowflakes at GW ! ! !

@Jeff-ne1lh Жыл бұрын

I have a GW store right down the road...I haven't been there in years the company is Toxic and does everything possible to not sell their overpriced shit. There are much better Table Top options.